Company Announcements Analytik Jena’s revenues for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, increased 23.1% organically to €53.1 million ($79.2 million) (see IBO 12/31/08). Analytical Solutions sales rose 23.3%, Bio Solutions sales grew 35.1% and Optical Solutions sales grew 16.9% to represent 76%, 8% and 16% of sales, respectively. Including the discontinued Project Solutions unit, […]

Company Announcements In the third quarter of 2008, Caliper Life Sciences restructured its business into three units (Discovery Research, Optical Molecular Imaging and Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services) to create a more scalable infrastructure, resulting in a workforce reduction. The initiative is expected to achieve $2.6 million in annualized savings. Caliper entered into a licensing […]

Company Announcements Nanosurf AG appointed RL Artal as its official agent for Hungary and Anamet SRO as its distributor for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Nikon Instruments signed a value-added reseller agreement to sell the ChromoDynamics’ HSi-300 Hyperspectral Imaging System with its Eclipse 90i and Ti series of microscopes. The System addresses the removal of […]

Company Announcements The Mathworks opened an office in Bangalore, India, in November 2008. PerkinElmer integrated its LABWORKS LIMS with Labtronics’ LimsLink and LimsLink Express software. Geospiza acquired VizX Labs’ GeneSifter Data Analysis for gene expression analysis from in November 2008. Ocimum Biosolutions agreed to distribute Clarmon’s QAvalid compliance management solution for automating quality and compliance […]

Company Announcements Proxeon integrated its EASY-nLC system software with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Xcalibur software and became a Thermo Fisher Scientific Virtual Instrument Partner. Varian and Flora Research Laboratories formed an alliance in October 2008 to advance the implementation of LC/MS for complex dietary supplement analysis. JASCO released drivers for Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies’ Analyst software […]

Company Announcements Under a research agreement, NuGEN Technologies will develop a Roche NimbleGen array application for small, degraded and compromised samples for use with its WT-Ovation technology. Biogemma will use Roche NimbleGen’s Sequence Capture technology to develop new technologies for large-scale genomic marker discovery in plants. Febit announced a strategic collaboration with In-Q-Tel for the […]

Company Announcements Olink AB in partnership with scientists from Uppsala University formed Q-linea AB to develop biosensors for the detection of biological warfare agents. Diversified Opportunities, an over-the-counter listed, shell company, acquired QRSciences’ US subsidiary and the electronic imaging firm Spectrum San Diego, which was partially owned by QRSciences. QRSciences agreed to distribute GE Security’s […]

Company Announcements Empire Genomics will develop locus-specific DNA probes for One Cell Systems for slide-based FISH applications. Empire will also comarket One Cell’s synthetic oligonucleotide probes for chromosome enumeration. In November 2008, QIAGEN licensed certain methylation technologies from OncoMethylome Sciences for use in its EpiTect product line. Five new members joined the RNAi Global Initiative, […]

Company Announcements In a management buyout, Harvard Bioscience sold its Union Biometrica division, the remaining portion of its Capital Equipment business, in October 2008 for $1 in cash, the assumption of certain liabilities and an earn-out. Harvard Bioscience named Thomas McNaughton, most recently CFO of Tivoli Audio, CFO in November 2008. Jock Fyfe Lennox, senior […]

Venlo, The Netherlands 1/22/09—Corbett, QIAGEN, ITF Labortechnik and Applied Biosystems have settled their disputes concerning the infringement by Corbett’s Rotor-Gene Real-Time PCR-Cyclers of Applied Biosystems’ Real-Time Thermal Cycler Instrument patents. Corbett, which was acquired by QIAGEN last year (see IBO 7/15/08), has entered into an agreement to license certain technology from Applied Biosystems related to […]